{"id":228142,"date":"2024-12-10T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=228142"},"modified":"2024-12-10T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:22:53","slug":"operation-falcon-dominican-drug-capo-arrested-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/operation-falcon-dominican-drug-capo-arrested-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Falcon: Dominican drug capo arrested in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario-1024x746.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228209\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario-1536x1119.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Erick-Mosquea-Polanco-Listin-Diario.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The seizing of a 9.5 ton shipment of drugs in a freight cargo has coincided with the arrest in Colombia of a Dominican said to have laundered around US$166 million in drug transacted money. El Tiempo of Colombia reports Erick Mosquea Polanco was behind a network that since 2012 trafficked in around 2,500 kilos of cocaine a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, known as Rodolfo Beltr\u00e1n, El Sony 7, El Chiquito, El Hombre, and\/or Chite, was captured by the Colombian National Army and the Attorney General&#8217;s Office on Friday, 6 December 2024. He had accumulated approximately 166 million dollars through money laundering derived from drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of his arrest, this Dominican, identified as the leader of the Falcon Network, dismantled in the country in September 2021, was located in a luxurious house in the Yerbabuena neighborhood of Ch\u00eda, Cundinamarca, on the outskirts of Bogot\u00e1, Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcon Case was named after a major law enforcement operation in 2021, with the change of government and recovery after Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20241209\/erick-mosquea-polanco-acumulo-alrededor-166-millones-dolares-narcotrafico-lavado_837118.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/noticias\/20241206\/detienen-colombia-erick-mosquea-lider-falcon_836671.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/2024\/12\/09\/otro-hermano-de-presunto-cabecilla-de-falcon-estaria-implicado-en-red\/2936227\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/captura-dominicano-narcotrafico-colombia-extradicion-93b078f4c301a09a5d7bedbcab07970c\">AP News <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/40-apartments-seized-in-major-drug-trafficking-case\/\">DR1 News <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/29\/el-seibo-legislators-house-raided-in-operation-falcon-drug-trafficking-investigation\/\">DR1 News <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/11\/judge-imposes-18-months-in-prison-to-15-of-23-people-implicated\/\">DR1 News <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/04\/prosecutors-investigating-senior-military-in-operation-falcon\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 December 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seizing of a 9.5 ton shipment of drugs in a freight cargo has coincided with the arrest in Colombia of a Dominican said to have laundered around US$166 million in drug transacted money. El Tiempo of Colombia reports Erick Mosquea Polanco was behind a network that since 2012 trafficked in around 2,500 kilos of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/operation-falcon-dominican-drug-capo-arrested-in-colombia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228210,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228142\/revisions\/228210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}